| abstract | - A great battle had been fought by the Malazan Emperor Kellanved's T'lan Imass at Kartool. Adjunct Lorn had witnessed clan chieftain Eitholos Ilm standing alongside Bonecaster Olar Ethil during an exchange of sorcery that made the battle between the Empire and Moon's Spawn at the Siege of Pale "look like a child's cantrip". The timeline for the battle is unclear (see Speculations) however, it is likely meant to have been the Malazan invasion which Hellian remembered. The Emperor's main target on the island had been the cult of D'rek whose priests and priestesses were master sorcerors. They were ruled over by the Demidrek and were the heart of Kartool's power. The night before the great naval battle and the subsequent invasion, under Dancer and Surly's lead, the cult's sorcerors, including the Demidrek, had been thoroughly obliterated. The incumbent archpriest of the Grand Temple in the years 1164 BS had gained his eminence in an internal coup not so long ago, ousting his rival Tayschrenn who had been the Emperor's new (at the time) High Mage. The Malazan Empire maintained an Imperial garrison within the city.
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